For days, the bodies of Ukrainian troops have been left sprawled among burned out trucks and armoured personnel carriers near the small town of Komsomolske in the east of the country. FRANCE 24 visits the scene in the rebel-controlled area. …read more Source: France...

More than 2,500 have been killed in the conflict in Ukraine, and relations between Russia and the west are more tense than at any time since the cold war. Where will this conflict end, and what are Vladimir Putin’s objectives in this protracted war? In recent weeks Russian involvement has become more visible. Russia has moved an estimated...

Obama’s visit will do little to lift the small Baltic state’s familiar feelings of powerlessness next to its Russian neighbourWhen Barack Obama lands in Estonia on Wednesday he will find a country anxious not just about the intentions of its big eastern neighbour but of its new western allies too.Obama’s whistlestop tour is...

Sergei Aksyonov tells Russian media that police and self-defence forces will be called if the LGBT community tries to organise gatherings. RFE/RL reportsCrimeas most senior official has said sexual minorities have no chance on the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in March.Speaking about gay people during a Crimean government session on...